The sting was part of the work of the Santa Clara County’s multi-agency human trafficking task force. According to local CBS affiliate KPIX 5, authorities were targeting an area of north San Jose, California, known for prostitution.

According to sources, police detained a suspected female prostitute in the area. The woman told task force members that she had to go to a car that was parked in a gas station near the intersection to retrieve some property.

Murphy was inside the car with his brother, and was questioned and released by police. However, his brother and the suspected prostitute were cited.

Murphy, 23, is no stranger to Northern California. Having grown up in Oakland, he attended high school at Oakland Tech before playing football for Oregon State (above in 2012).

He is far from the first player to get in trouble over Super Bowl weekend. The night before Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999, Atlanta Falcons safety Eugene Robinson was charged with soliciting sex from an undercover police officer in Miami.

Now a radio and broadcast analyst for the Carolina Panthers, he cautioned players Tuesday on resisting temptations. “That was the worst night of my life,” Robinson said. “The worst. Nothing else compares.”

Super Bowl 50 between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers will be played Sunday, Feb. 7, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. It airs live on CBS from 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 ET.

Sportscaster Simmons' beef with ESPN went public last year when he called out network bosses over coverage of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The feud reached a boiling point in May and the parties parted ways -- but Simmons, who has since signed with HBO, has continued to criticize his former network, especially since its closure of Grantland in October.

Eighteen months after Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy attacked his ex-girlfriend in a violent assault, police photos of her graphic injuries sent fans into a frenzy, prompting many to demand discipline from the team and the NFL.

Fans feared it was the end for former NBA star Odom when he was found unconscious in a brothel last October. He pulled out of a coma, but his road to recovery has been rocky as the former Laker still struggles to walk.

“I’ve never bought into that ‘baseball is just too complex,'” Cowherd said on his ESPN radio show in July. “A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has not been known, in my lifetime, as having world-class academic abilities."

The former MLB star-turned-broadcast analyst was suspended by ESPN for posting racist tweets comparing Muslims to Nazis. “It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?” he wrote.

Most injuries happen on the field, but New York Jets QB Geno Smith got his jaw broken in the locker room by his own teammate following an altercation over money, $600 no less.

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NASCAR Lowers the Confederate Flag

Auto racing is a sport of the South, where many people still consider the Confederate flag to be an appropriate symbol of their culture. When the controversy over the banner hit peak publicity this year, NASCAR made the tough business decision to ban it from official events.

A Penn State student tweeted the sports anchor a link to an article about the school’s fundraising efforts to fight pediatric cancer, which included the school rallying cry “We Are…”

Olbermann responded “…pitiful,” which angry tweeters took as a criticism of the school’s philanthropy efforts. As for why he called the charitable cause “pitiful,” the anchor said it was a simple rushed mistake, while saying social media is used as an alternative to “Wild West saloon brawling.”

Warren Sapp was arrested for soliciting a prostitute in 2015, hence his sad mugshot to the left. That frown was most definitely not turned upside-down when the former NFL great was canned by the NFL network.

Yes, Deflategate was 2015 -- even though it feels like years ago by this point. Brady allegedly instructed the New England Patriots' equipment manager to deflate his footballs, allowing for ease of passing and catching. He was initially suspended for four games, but that later was overruled by a federal judge.

During the big College Football Playoff bowl games on New Year’s Day, sportscaster Rome wrote on Twitter: “Is there anyone not in a marching band who thinks those dorks running around with their instruments are cool?” Apparently, there were lots of people who felt “those dorks” were cool, and that Rome’s comment was not.